Category Archives: Career

Passing Fortinet FCSS SASE Certification

I volunteered to take Fortinet Certified Solution Specialist SASE certification when our company needed to fulfill Fortinet partner qualifications. I wanted to learn more about solutions and challenge myself in new areas. And challenge it was! First, I don’t have experience in configuring SD-WAN or SASE in practice, just some Fortigate firewalling basics from yearsContinueContinue reading “Passing Fortinet FCSS SASE Certification”

My Juniper Story

I got inspired by Jeff McLaughlin’s post of his thoughts on Juniper, and I wanted to tell my personal Juniper story from a distant small country Finland. This is also my professional growth story and I feel Juniper has had a significant impact on it. My first contact with Juniper was around 2008 when I startedContinueContinue reading “My Juniper Story”

Thoughts on AZ-700 exam

Last week I passed Azure AZ-700 networking exam “Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions” and earned the ”Azure Network Engineer Associate” certification. My score was just above the passing level, which was 700 points, so I was very glad to make it through. The exam felt unpleasant in several ways and I want toContinueContinue reading “Thoughts on AZ-700 exam”

Psychology in IT: Imposter syndrome and depression

There’s a lot of talk about mental health issues nowadays, and I had to throw my thoughts in the mix too. Very many proclaim that they have imposter syndrome, depression, or some other mental health issue. But we all can’t be suddenly that sick in medical terms. What’s going on? Imposter syndrome is not anContinueContinue reading “Psychology in IT: Imposter syndrome and depression”

Psychology in IT: Estimate, Promise, and Deliver

After being part of many customer or internal projects, It’s always amazing how badly people manage expectations. Setting the right expectations and delivering them should be easy by utilizing basic human psychology. That’s the mandatory part of customer and organizational success.   A basic skill in IT is estimating how much work, calendar time, money,ContinueContinue reading “Psychology in IT: Estimate, Promise, and Deliver”